All Human Wisdom

Resumen del libro

The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogyIn 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealth banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although, unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More unfortunately still, certain vultures who have long envied and resented Marcel Pericourt, are beginning to circle, and when Madeleine's seven-year-old son, Paul, tumbles from a second floor window of the Pericourt mansion on the day of his grandfather's funeral, and suffers life-changing injuries, it does not take long for these vultures to hone in on the Pericourt millions, conspiring to reduce Madeleine to destitution and ruin in a matter of months.

Using all her reserves of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and a burning desire for retribution, Madeleine sets about rebuilding her life. She will be helped by an ex-Communist fixer, a Polish nurse who doesn't speak a word of French, a brainless petty criminal with a talent for sabotage, an exiled German Jewish chemist, a very expensive forger, an opera singer with a handy flair for theatrics, and her own son with ideas for a creative new business to take Paris by storm. A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Pierre Lemaitre x{0026}lt;/B (París, 1951) estudió Psicología, creó una empresa de formación pedagógica e impartió clases de literatura. Autor tardío, en 2006 ganó el premio a la primera novela policíaca en el festival de Cognac con x{0026}lt;I Irènex{0026}lt;/I , primera entrega de una serie que incluye x{0026}lt;I Alexx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Rosy x{0026}amp; Johnx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Camillex{0026}lt;/I . Consagrado como uno de los escritores más populares de hoy, con más de tres millones de lectores, su carrera literaria dio un vuelco con x{0026}lt;I Nos vemos allá arriba x{0026}lt;/I (Premio Goncourt 2013), primer volumen de Los hijos del desastre , una aclamada trilogía editada por Salamandra que sigue con x{0026}lt;I Los colores del incendiox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El espejo de nuestras penasx{0026}lt;/I . En Salamandra han aparecido también el x{0026}lt;I Diccionario apasionado de la novela negrax{0026}lt;/I , y las novelas x{0026}lt;I Tres días y una vidax{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I La gran serpiente y El ancho mundox{0026}lt;/I , y las dos primeras entregas de su saga Los años gloriosos : x{0026}lt;I El ancho mundox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El silencio y la cólerax{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P